Blogs Scraping Content - What to Do

[DannyCox]

Maybe I misunderstand the whole concept, but I thought the reason people used RRS feeds was to allow others to use the content. I really don't know much about the blogging side (although I do intend to learn) but isn't that what RRS feeds are for?

I know a guy with a sailing Blog who has all the RSS feeds removed so people can't link to them. It's just a small, more personal Blog, not meant to make money, and he uses it as a ship log to share with friends and family.

[KevinG]

Excellent point Danny. Let me explain.

Yes. You are right. One legitimate use of rss feeds is to get your content syndicated on other sites. The right way for it to be done is to have your partial post ( a teaser) published on other sites with a click through to your site to read the rest.

One hand washes the other. They get a little fresh automatic updated content and you get the potential click-thru traffic.

Illegitimate variations of this is the problem my original post was addressing.

1. Some sites just pull the content, do not link back and give no credit to the source.

2. Other sites pull the content and link back. However, they also post their link into the comments section on your site and include all kinds of low quality very spammy links out from your site.

What I do with these losers in case #2, which happens to http://www.horndog.com every day is delete their comments that are embedded with links, but my link gets left up on their site. They are too lazy and stupid to do any real manual work, so they don't even notice that they got deleted but my link is still up on their site. Their sites are completely automated.

This is easily managed because I use the Akismet plugin that catches all of these without even publishing them. Whenever I want, at my leisure, I can come in and press one button and delete all of them in one click.

[DannyCox]

ah, okay. I understand now.

BTW, I am putting together some questions for any of the "Blog Gurus" here on Oprano. I'm totally rebuilding Carol's site and will be adding a Blog (she writes them all over the place already). I'll have some questions on how to best use and utilize the Blogs for a traffic and marketing standpoint. I'm such a "set in my ways" old-timer, I have fallen behind all this newfangled stuff

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by DannyCox

ah, okay. I understand now.

BTW, I am putting together some questions for any of the "Blog Gurus" here on Oprano. I'm totally rebuilding Carol's site and will be adding a Blog (she writes them all over the place already). I'll have some questions on how to best use and utilize the Blogs for a traffic and marketing standpoint. I'm such a "set in my ways" old-timer, I have fallen behind all this newfangled stuff

LOL Danny. I get a little set in my ways too. I am also an "anti-fad" type of guy.

Whatever the latest thing is that everybody is doing is usually the last thing that I want to be doing. I hate the general "sheep mentality" that society has.

When blogs first came out and every retard with a computer started blogging I thought it was annoying.

However, blogs have graduated into being very professional with some real monster money making machines. Not that I'm a fan, but just look at Perez Hilton. He sells ads on his blog for $16,000.

[Toby]

Originally Posted by KevinG

...just look at Perez Hilton. He sells ads on his blog for $16,000.

A bit off topic, but aren't most of these blog sites making mad $$$ doing so almost by accident? The site became hugely popular first, and THEN they started monetizing that traffic. Monetizing wasn't the initial intent.

[KevinG]

Originally Posted by Toby

A bit off topic, but aren't most of these blog sites making mad $$$ doing so almost by accident? The site became hugely popular first, and THEN they started monetizing that traffic. Monetizing wasn't the initial intent.

It could be. That certainly happened in adult 10 years ago.

However, there are also some blogs that appear to have meaningful corporate backing, that are very well done and appear to have lots of traffic and revenue. They are professional and smart and not examples of someone just "stepping in shit".

http://fleshbot.com/ sends a lot of love to us over at Burning Angel and Joanna Angel.

http://fleshbot.com/342962/avn-award...down-t+minus-3

[Hammer]

I've actually used scrapers to create blogs for some of my sites that don't have RSS feeds like most blogs, but since anyone can use a scraper to create a blog from the content of any website, they are obviously abused. The point of scraping is supposed to be to allow people to create feeds for sites they frequent but don't have a feed available. Unfortunately, just like with most things, some people find ways to use things for purposes they were not created for.